From: Paul Colin Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
Subject: Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:19:18 +0000
Date: 2011-05-13T16:19:18+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1105131612130.3535@Bluewhite64.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a30758fc-761c-4221-9663-f3d0325b5074@r33g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> sent on May 12th, 2011:
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|DOS was used because of the extremely low RAM of the day (16 to 64 kb, |
|I think) on the original IBM PC. [..] |
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All IBM PCs had much more RAM than 64 kilobytes. A Commodore 64 had 64
kilobytes and cost circa 10% as much as an IBM PC. Some Sinclair ZX81s
and Sinclair ZX Spectrums (also branded as Timex instead of Sinclair)
had 16 kilobytes of RAM and cost circa 1% and circa 3% as much as an
IBM PC, respectively.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-06 23:04 Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down John Herro
2011-04-08 10:57 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-04-22 16:10 ` Brad Cantrell
2011-04-27 16:02 ` John Herro
2011-04-29 6:00 ` qunying
2011-05-05 12:29 ` John Herro
2011-05-05 17:52 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-05 21:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-07 8:36 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-05-10 21:36 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-12 0:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-12 13:28 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-12 14:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-12 17:40 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-12 18:24 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-05-12 22:17 ` DOS, was " Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-12 22:40 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-05-13 5:14 ` tmoran
2011-05-13 7:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-13 20:32 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-13 22:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-17 13:09 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-05-13 20:12 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-14 0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 13:52 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-14 21:29 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-15 0:14 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-15 0:26 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-15 7:27 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-05-17 13:17 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-05-14 0:17 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 14:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-16 23:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 1:21 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-05-14 0:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 13:08 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-12 18:44 ` DOS, was " tmoran
2011-05-14 14:17 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-13 16:19 ` Paul Colin Gloster [this message]
2011-05-13 17:22 ` Frank J. Lhota
2011-05-13 18:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-14 0:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 14:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-16 23:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-05-14 21:22 ` Rugxulo
2011-05-19 14:56 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-14 12:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-14 21:20 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-14 12:32 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-14 21:19 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-19 15:00 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-05-12 19:19 ` Simon Wright
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